Kolektiva Institute is hosting exhibition, Bosnia & Herzegovina Video Art: namaTRE.ba Project
29 July - 20 August 2010
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana
Opening view on 29 July 2010 at 8 p.m.
Curated by: Igor Bošnjak
Participating artists: Dragana Andjelić, Igor Bošnjak, Mladen Bundalo, Lana Cmajčanin, Nela Hasanbegović, Nenad Malešević, Miodrag Manojlović, Mladen Miljanović, Borjana Mrdja, Daniel Premec, Dajan Špirić, Bojana Tamindžija
Miodrag Manojlović, Ordinary, video still
Contemporary art scene (especially video art) in Bosnia & Herzegovina is very interesting because it presents and deals with some issues, problems and relations between the past – in terms of politics, ideology and history – and nowadays, the present. Bosnian video art is represented by three different varieties: firstly, there are works that refer to the recent war and posttraumatic elements in society, next, there are works that refer to some universal problems and ideas of media and art, and finally, there are works that refer to questions of personal and social identity. This selection (compilation) of video art is a part of namaTRE.ba 3 video project which is a kind of “other” independent video art scene inside Bosnia & Herzegovina which represents (un)institutional art.
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Igor Bošnjak (1981, Sarajevo) is a visual artist and curator, as well as the founder of the international project www.namaTRE.ba. He earned his B.A. at the Academy of fine-arts in Trebinje, his M.A. at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. Currently, he is working on a PhD at the Interdisiciplinary Departement at Univesity of Arts in Belgrade on the subject: Theory of Art and Media. In addition, he is an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje on subjects: painting, photography and intermedia. Besides his work as fine-artist, he is intensively dealing with the areas of new media art, experimental film and video. He also works as a freelance theorist and writes for various platforms in the domain of film, video and cyberspace. He participated in numerous solo shows and group exhibitions in BiH and Europe.
Igor Bošnjak CV (pdf)
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Videos will be presented in a form of a video projection. Total screening time: 00:57:43
Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Association/Gallery Photon
Project supported by: Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo, Ministrstvo za kulturo
Sponsor: Center Projekcije
Thanks: SCCA-Ljubljana
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Photon Gallery
Photon Association
Festival Photonic Moments
Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 1 2302071
m: +386 41 258215
www.photon.si
www.mesecfotografije.si
Opening time: Mon.-Fri.: 11am – 2pm / 3pm - 6pm
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Zavod Kolektiva gosti skupinsko razstavo videa
Videoumetnost Bosne in Hercegovine: projekt namaTRE.ba
29. 7. – 20. 8. 2010
Galerija Photon, Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
Otvoritev v četrtek, 29. 7. 2010 ob 20.00 uri.
Kurator: Igor Bošnjak
Sodelujoči umetniki: Dragana Andjelić, Igor Bošnjak, Mladen Bundalo, Lana Cmajčanin, Nela Hasanbegović, Nenad Malešević, Miodrag Manojlović, Mladen Miljanović, Borjana Mrdja, Daniel Premec, Dajan Špirić, Bojana Tamindžija
Miodrag Manojlović, Ordinary, videoizsek
Dogajanje v sodobni vizualni umetnosti (predvsem na področju videa) Bosne in Hercegovine je zelo zanimivo. Umetniki obravnavajo in predstavljajo različna vprašanja, probleme in odnose med preteklostjo – v smislu politike, ideologije in zgodovine – in sedanjostjo. Bosansko video umetnost bi lahko razdelili na tri področja: dela, ki obravnavajo nedavno vojno in post-travmatične elemente v družbi, dela, ki se ukvarjajo s splošnimi problemi in idejami v okviru medija in umetnosti, in dela, ki raziskujejo vprašanja osebne in socialne identitete. Pričujoči izbor je del projekta namaTRE.ba 3, nekakšne “druge” neodvisne video scene v Bosni in Hercegovini, ki predstavlja (ne)institucionalno umetnost.
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Igor Bošnjak (1981, Sarajevo) je vizualni umetnik in kurator, ustanovitelj mednarodnega projekta www.namaTRE.ba. Diplomiral je na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Trebinju in magistriral na Univerzi za umetnost v Beogradu. Trenutno pripravlja doktorat na oddelku za interdisciplinarne študije na Univerzi za umetnost v Beogradu na temo teorije umetnosti in medijev. Je docent na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Trebinju na oddelkih za slikarstvo, fotografijo in intermedijo. Kot umetnik Igor Bošnjak deluje na področju vizualne in novomedijske umetnosti, eksperimentalnega filma in videa. Deluje tudi kot neodvisni teoretik. Za različne medije piše o filmu, videu in kiberprostoru. Predstavil se je na številnih samostojnih in skupinskih razstavah v BiH in po Evropi.
Igor Bošnjak CV (pdf, eng)
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Videi bodo predvajani v obliki videoprojekcije. Skupna dolžina: 00:57:43
Produkcija: Zavod Kolektiva
Koprodukcija: Društvo/galerija Photon
Projekt podpira: Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo, Ministrstvo za kulturo
Sponzor: Center Projekcije
Zahvala: SCCA-Ljubljana
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Galerija Photon
Festival Photonic Moments
Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
T: +386 1 2302071
M: +386 41 258215
www.photon.si
www.mesecfotografije.si
Urnik: pon.-pet.: 11.00 – 14.00 / 15.00 -18.00
» Več informacij (kuratorski tekst, opisi in slike del, vabilo, slika za tisk - press)
]]>Visions from the Future
Second edition 2010
Iridescent Worlds
International Festival of sound visions
Torino, May 28-30, 2010
Selected videos from Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative will be screened in the frame of the festival on May 30, 2010, 7.30 p.m. at Hiroshima Mon Amour:
- Maria Petschnig, Kip Masker, 2007, 3′25″
- Chris Dupuis, The Bathroom Project, 2008, 5′08″
- Željko Jančić Zec, The Second Man, 2008, 3′22″
- Joshua & Zachary Sandler, You’re Gonna Go Bald, 2009, 2′26″
- Attila Urbán, Quiet, 2008, 4′56″
- Gerwin Luijendijk, You surround me, and cover me protect me and caress me with that special simple love, 2009, 4′06″
- Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu & Emilio Corti, Mohenjo-Daro, 2008, 5′42″
- Aldo Giannotti & Viktor Schaider, A Rewinding Journey, 2005, 11′16″
May 18-21, 2010
Cultural & Educational Centre - Vortex, Skopje, Macedonia
Curated by: KOLEKTIVA
Participating artists:
4! (PL), Giuseppe Di Bella (UK), Sheila Bishop (USA), Elena Bellantoni (I/D), Marek Brandt (D), Michał Brzeziński (PL), Sérgio Cruz (PT/UK), Chris Dupuis (CA), A. Jacob Galle (USA), Silvia Giambrone (I/D), Aldo Giannotti (I/A) & Viktor Schaider (A), Aldo Giannotti (I/A) & Stefano Giuriati (I/D), Clara Games (PT), G.R.A.M. (A), Nilbar Güreş (TR/A), Marianne Holm Hansen (DK/UK), Francis Hunger (D), Isidora Ilić (SR), Željko Jančić Zec (A), Lemeh42 (I), Gerwin Luijendijk (NL), Ignacio Martín de la Cruz & Bárbara Bañuelos Ojeda (ES), Ljiljana Mihaljević (CRO/USA), Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu & Emilio Corti (I), Eugenio Percossi (I/CZ), Maria Petschnig (A/USA), Zoran Poposki (MK), Gastón Ramírez Feltrín (MX/I), Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa (PT), Mauro Romito (I), Joshua & Zachary Sandler (USA), Peter Simon (PL/D), Evelin Stermitz (A/SI), Ljupcho Temelkovski (MK), Attila Urbán (SE), Volante (PT/MX/UK), Jonas Zagorskas (LT/PL), Wojtek Ziemilski (PL)
Cultural & Educational Centre - Vortex from Skopje is hosting the exhibition Video in Progress 3: Fields of the Performative
The exhibition will consist of video-DVD library of all 46 videos included in VIP3 and screening of selected videos.
VIP3 Selected Videos Screening:
- Maria Petschnig, Kip Masker, 2007, 3′25″
- Chris Dupuis, The Bathroom Project, 2008, 5′08″
- Željko Jančić Zec, The Second Man, 2008, 3′22″
- Joshua & Zachary Sandler, You’re Gonna Go Bald, 2009, 2′26″
- Attila Urbán, Quiet, 2008, 4′56″
- Gerwin Luijendijk, You surround me, and cover me protect me and caress me with that special simple love, 2009, 4′06″
- Luisa Mizzoni aka luxi lu & Emilio Corti, Mohenjo-Daro, 2008, 5′42″
- Aldo Giannotti & Viktor Schaider, A Rewinding Journey, 2005, 11′16″
Contact info:
Cultural & Educational Centre - Vortex
E-mail: vortex.kulturen.centar@gmail.com
Mobile Number: +389 78 449 709
Current Address: ul. Gjuro Gjakovik, br. 25 / 2nd floor, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Kolektiva Institute is the producer of the international video art exhibition, RED: The Gendered Color in Frames
14 May - 11 June 2010
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana
Opening view on 14 May 2010 at 8 p.m.
We kindly invite you to attend the curator’s talk on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 at 5 p.m. The talk will be in English language.
Curated by: Evelin Stermitz
Participating artists: Barbara Agreste (IT/UK), Ana Grobler (SLO), Michelle Handelman (USA), Kika Nicolela (BR/USA), Suzy Okamoto (BR/USA), Duba Sambolec (SLO/NOR), Iris Selke (DE), Evelin Stermitz (A/SLO)
Kika Nicolela, Ecstasy Poem, video still
Red, as a superior color, has gained various meanings in its symbolism during history, culture and religion. In general red is associated with a duality of meanings between life and death, as destructive and dangerous the color is related to aggression but also to vitality and power, to fire as well as to blood and love, and in contrast to this to agony, also associated with devil and hell, prostitution and sexuality. Red can appear as offensive and intrusive, a color of rage and love. Basically red symbolizes strong emotions of profound urges and impulses. In relation to women, this powerful and ingenious color is gendered in various contexts. Aspects of female connotations and narrations of the color red are symbolized in the selected video works.
The woman in a red dress is foregrounded in the work Flux by Kika Nicolela and Suzy Okamoto as well as in Ophelia by Iris Selke, with flowing connotations of sexuality, female power and doom. In Airport Revisited by Duba Sambolec, red is used in a textual structure to centre the self of a woman and of any other group that is underrepresented, oppressed and neglected in social structures and language. Blood is the symbol in the work Rain by Barbara Agreste in context of life and death and in Ana Grobler’s video Superultra, where the theme of menstruation is articulated in a critical perception. In the work Ecstasy Poem by Kika Nicolela, the artist compares two faces of the same woman (actress Liv Ullman) looking at the camera in slow motion. Whereby in one portrait the portrayed woman is young and at the peak of her beauty, in the opposite frame she is already aged. Michelle Handelman visualizes in Folly & Error a performance of two women related together with a red pant as a singular corpus, moving through a landscape of nature in an obscure choreography. The video work Red Velvet by Evelin Stermitz symbolizes abstract connotations of the color red in context of the media itself and its use/abuse of power and sexuality.
Production: Kolektiva Institute
Co-production: Association/Gallery Photon
Project supported by: Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo, Ministrstvo za kulturo
Sponsor: Center Projekcije
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Photon Gallery
Photon Association
Festival Photonic Moments
Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
t: +386 1 2302071
m: +386 40 168023
www.photon.si
www.mesecfotografije.si
Opening time: Mon.-Fri.: 11am – 2pm / 3pm - 6pm
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Zavod Kolektiva je producent mednarodne skupinske razstave videa
RDEČA: barva spola v videoizsekih
14. 5.-11. 6. 2010
Galerija Photon, Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
Otvoritev v petek, 14. 5. 2010 ob 20. uri.
Vabljeni na javno vodstvo v torek, 25. 5. 2010 ob 17.00 uri. Po razstavi bo v angleškem jeziku vodila kustosinja Evelin Stermitz.
Kuratorica: Evelin Stermitz
Barbara Agreste (IT/UK), Ana Grobler (SLO), Michelle Handelman (USA), Kika Nicolela (BR/USA), Suzy Okamoto (BR/USA), Duba Sambolec (SLO/NOR), Iris Selke (DE), Evelin Stermitz (A/SLO)
Kika Nicolela, Ecstasy Poem, videoizsek
Rdeča kot superiorna barva je skozi zgodovino, kulturo in vero pridobila različne pomene v svoji simboliki. Na splošno je z rdečo barvo povezana dvojnost pomenov, ki so razpeti med življenje in smrt. Kot destruktivno in nevarno jo povezujemo z agresivnostjo pa tudi z vitalnostjo in močjo, z ognjem, krvjo in ljubeznijo, pa zopet nasprotno z agonijo, s hudičem in peklom, prostitucijo in spolnostjo. Rdeča se lahko pojavi kot žaljiva in vsiljiva, barva jeze in hkrati ljubezni. V svojem bistvu rdeča simbolizira močna čustva, globoke nagone in impulze. V odnosu do žensk ta močna in premetena barva postane barva spola v okviru različnih kontekstov. V izbranih video delih so predstavljeni simbolni ženski pogledi na različne pomene in predstave o rdeči barvi.
Videa Flux, avtoric Kike Nicolela in Suzy Okamoto, in Ophelia, avtorice Iris Selke, obravnavata žensko v rdeči obleki, ki jo lahko interpretiramo v povezavi s spolnostjo, žensko močjo in pogubo. V videu Airport Revisited Dube Sambolec je rdeča uporabljena v tekstovni strukturi, ki osredišči jaz ženske in katerekoli druge družbene skupine, ki ni dovolj zastopana ali pa je zatirana in spregledana znotraj socialnih struktur in jezika. Video Rain Barbare Agreste obravnava kri kot simbol v kontekstu življenja in smrti. Ana Grobler v videu Superultra s kritično percepcijo artikulira tematiko menstruacije. Kika Nicolela v Ecstasy Poem v počasnem posnetku primerja dva obraza iste ženske (igralke Liv Ullmann), ki hkrati gledata v kamero. V eni polovici kadra je portret mlade ženske, ki je na vrhuncu svoje lepote, v drugi polovici pa na njenem portretu že vidimo sledove staranja. Michelle Handelman v videoperformansu Folly & Error prikaže dve ženski, ki se v skupnih rdečih spodnjicah, kot eno samo telo, gibljeta skozi pokrajino v obskurni koreografiji. Red Velvet, delo Evelin Stermitz, simbolizira abstraktne konotacije rdeče barve v kontekstu samega medija in uporabe/zlorabe moči in seksualnosti.
Produkcija: Zavod Kolektiva
Koprodukcija: Društvo/galerija Photon
Projekt podpira: Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo, Ministrstvo za kulturo
Sponzor: Center Projekcije
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Galerija Photon
Festival Photonic Moments
Križevniška 10, 1000 Ljubljana
T: +386 1 2302071
M: +386 40 168023
www.photon.si
www.mesecfotografije.si
Urnik: pon.-pet.: 11.00 – 14.00 / 15.00 -18.00
» Več informacij (kuratorski tekst, opisi in slike del, življenjepisi, slika za tisk - press)
]]>April 24 - May 30, 2010
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
Artists: Dave Ball, Vesna Bukovec, Agnieszka Chojnacka, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Agnieszka Kurant, Łukasz Ogórek, Tom Milnes, Kama Sokolnicka, Metka Zupanič
Curator: Agnieszka Kulazińska
About the exhibition:
The idea of “The-Dump.net” was conceived by French artist and theorist Maurice Benayoun. It comes down to a dump of thoughts. It exists in the form of an Internet blog which comprises concepts of works in theoretical or hypothetical shape, ideas too complex to be realized, and not clearly defined, transient thoughts being born each day in artist’s mind.
What is the difference between today’s artists and regular citizens? Since the Renaissance the situation was clear as the craftsmanship was an indispensable element of artistic production. The artist worked according to disegno – the intellectual idea – and the capability to put it into practice was essential. In the 20th century the proportions reversed: the craft ceased to matter and artistic activity shifted into the sphere of pure conceptuality. Today, the final work can be as well accomplished by another person, be born through coincidence, or the viewers themselves can become co-authors or provide conditions for it to appear.
“The Dump – Recycling of Thoughts” is an experiment whose construction brings to mind an Internet forum. The artists invited to the project will be asked to realize concepts picked up from the dump.
Metka Zupanič is participating with the project Wish To Be There, 2010
The first known labyrinth was built by Daedalus, Greek artists, to keep the monster, Minotaur, away of people, of civilization. Later, labyrinths were used to symbolize a hard path to God, as symbolic forms of pilgrimage. This double meaning conveyed in the image of labyrinth, has stayed within cultural and visual history of mankind throughout the modern times.
In her recent work, she deals with the art system as something opposed to an artist. Artist is struggling in an environment, which is constantly puzzling him, where the paths could lead to many dead-ends but sometimes also to the “highest throne”, which are in this case the most famous art institutions. In the art world, an artist is constantly walking through the labyrinth, not knowing, whether he will meet a Minotaur or God on the next corner…
(Labyrinth is made from the names of well known galleries and institutions..)
The project is an interpretation of the Maurice Benayoun’s blog post Bibliography generator from July 2, 2008
Vesna Bukovec produced a series of 5 drawings entitled I promise to change the world but only if 10 other people will do the same, 2010.
Following Maurice Benayoun’s post To Change the World from June 18, 2008 in which he suggests to make a catalogue of all the things in our environment that can be changed by our activity she started to think about the level of moral responsibility of contemporary (western) individual. Her project is not just a realization of an idea from the blog, but an interpretation that critically and ironically deals with the social / political / environmental activities initiated by social networks on the internet.
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Exhibition view
Visions from the future
Iridescent Worlds
28-30 May, 2010
Cinema Massimo, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Torino, Italy
Deadline: 23 April, 2010
The project is curated by:
Luisa Mizzoni [alias luxi lu], Emilio Corti and Francesca Mizzoni [alias Infrason]
With the patronage of Ministero della Gioventù, Accaemia Albertina, Città di Torino, Regione
Piemonte Cultural association Alfavì, in the context of Cronosfera Project, in collaboration with Sincronie calls all the videomakers and audiovisual researchers to create, shaping image and sound, works that pass through us to imagine IRIDESCENT WORLDS.
The festival and the competition’s entry form articulate in the two sections:
VIDEO (short film, videoart, computer art): that will be screened at Cinema Massimo on may 28
2010 and replied the folling two days at Hiroshima Mon Amour.
LIVE MEDIA : audiovisual performances that will be held on may29 and 30 at Hiroshima Mon
Amour.
Cultural association Alfavì has conceived and realized in in the Middle Age settlement of Cavatore
(AL), the Cronosfera Festival, an event dedicated to art, science and science fiction, and the international competition Visions from the Future as an important section of the Festival.
After the first edition in 2008, dedicated to past, present and future imagined in a sci-fi context, for
this second edition Visions from the Future turns bright looks to the earth and the sky inspired by
cosmological and cosmogonic visions, explores the alchemy of our earth, our history, the social
evolution, spirituality and the mysteries surrounding man.
Visions from the Future 2008 has heightened from Italy and abroad, a great variety of high quality
videos, in technique and content, from short films to animation, that displaced an intense and
mutating visionary imagery.
The catalogue of the event is available in bookshops, libraries and foundations all over Europe and
can be requested through the website.
Media Partners: Video Art World, Streamit, Festival Miden
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